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NEW YORK — “But in the end how do you get hold of hollowness,” was the rhetorical question asked by the perplexed critic Walter Kerr, when Edward Albee's “A Delicate Balance” first opened on Broadway in 1966. Back then, critics and audiences had just come to grips with the scorched-earth landscapes of Samuel Beckett and the menacing minimalism of Harold Pinter, understanding these were ways to dramatize existential human despair. But the Albee of 1966 was vexing for Kerr and his peers. Albee's upper-class characters were recognizable, intelligent, conversational, real. They were like the people in the orchestra seats: irascible, booze-soaked, wry...

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